Posts for November, 2007

XML 1.0 to 1.1 and back? [updated 03/04/2008]

November 24th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

xml iconXML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation in early 2004. However XML 1.1 was controversial and there are very few XML 1.1 documents in the wild. The W3C is now considering back-porting the naming philosophy from XML 1.1 as an update to XML 1.0 and if passed then expects to deprecate XML 1.1.

Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) in .nz

November 19th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

KiwibānkWe have contributed to a submission from the State Services Commission to the New Zealand Domain Name Commission, developing discussion points regarding the implementation of IDNs into the .nz domain name space - which would enable the registration of domain names using the five additional characters of the Māori alphabet, the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū.